How Do You Distribute Your Print Book?
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Worldwide Distribution Credit wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common
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In a recent blog post - How Much Does Self-Publishing Cost? and earlier, Distribution of Your Print Book and CreateSpace, LightningSource or both? - we explained how to distribute your print book. Self Publishing With Amazon, CreateSpace, and LightningSource: Print-Book self-publishing guru Aaron Shepard, author of Aiming at Amazon set up a few guidelines that will suffice for new author publishers:
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1. Start with CreateSpace to most easily, efficiently, and reliably handle sales to Amazon, your biggest market. One exception is, if LightningSource is better able to produce your book. For instance, Lightning now has color offerings that beat those of CreateSpace either in quality or in affordability.
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2. When and if your sales are high enough that an extra 10% to 20% is worth doubling your effort, and if you want to have your book worldwide distributed, add Lightning Source. And for heaven’s sake, read POD for Profit, so you understand what you’re getting into.
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3. At least at first, set your list price to … Read all of Aaron Shepard guidelines, and his explanations for everyone, interested in print publishing and distributing books – maybe even worldwide.
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More about LightningSource and CreateSpace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Source
https://www1.lightningsource.com/default.aspx
https://www1.lightningsource.com/benefits_small.aspx
Terri Giuliano Long, Boston College teacher and bestseller author wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terri-giuliano-long/self-publishing-platforms_b_2810092.html
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